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Americans are spending more of the workday sitting — the jobs driving the trend often come with more money

Software developers sit nearly all day and make six figures. Fast-food workers are on their feet almost nonstop, and earn about $30,000 a year.

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Nurses are still America’s most trusted workers

While healthcare professionals continue to lead Gallup’s ranking of ethics ratings, Americans’ trust in many occupations has slumped to record lows.

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More Americans are living alone than ever before

As a viral app sparks debate about solo living in China, new Census Bureau data shows that the share of one-person households in the US is reaching record highs.

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Rani Molla

Amazon Prime now has 200 million shoppers in the US, up 6% from last year, according to new data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. However, that doesn’t mean there are 200 million Prime subscriptions — which go for $139 a year — since multiple people in a household can share the same membership. Amazon recently added free same-day grocery delivery for many Prime subscribers, in hopes of getting more Americans to fork over that annual fee.

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Long-term unemployment in the US has risen to a postpandemic high

The number of Americans who’ve been unemployed for over 27 weeks hit 1.9 million in August.

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Rani Molla

Elon Musk’s $1 billion purchase of Tesla shares sent the stock soaring this morning — along with his personal wealth. Bloomberg’s Matt Levine calculated that the share price rise thanks to Musk’s purchase was enough to raise the total value of his stock by $17 billion.

However, as Levine also pointed out, it’s not as if Musk will realize that gain any time soon:

If you could spend $1 billion to make yourself $17 billion richer, and then cash out that $17 billion, that would be an amazing trade and you should do it all day long. But in practice, if buying $1 billion of stock makes your stock go up by $17 billion, then selling that $17 billion of stock will make your stock go down by much more.